Fraternal Genocide in Ukraine: U.S. Instigating Yugoslav Scenario

NEW DELHI: The US effort to turn Ukraine into a forward area for positioning NATO bases is paving the way for fraternal genocide and ethnic cleansing in the former Soviet state, repeating the Yugoslav scenario, Aijaz Ahmad, a famous Indian philosopher and political expert said in an article in a leading Indian newsmagazine, Frontline.

The conflict in Yugoslavia – a former European country that separated into Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro – culminated in a series of NATO bombings in March 1999 in response to alleged widespread atrocities by Serbian forces against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo.

As a result of the 78-day NATO bombing campaign, Serbia, a nation with historic ties to Russia, lost control of Kosovo province, which declared independence in 2008. Moscow compared last month’s Crimea secession from Ukraine with Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, saying Kosovo established a precedent and Crimea followed suit.

In his article, “The ‘Great Game’ in Europe,” Ahmad wrote that in February the United States sponsored a Euro-Nazi coup in Kiev and, in response, the reunification of Crimea, formerly a Ukrainian region, with Russia in March signaled a “turning point and a watershed event” in the post-Soviet era.

Ahmad wrote that on the heels of US President Barack Obama’s China-containment strategy, known as the “Asian pivot,” Washington has started a European pivot with the goal of encircling Russia and abolishing a crucial buffer between Moscow and the advance of a network of NATO bases into territories formerly part of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.

Ukraine, like the Serbo-Croatian region in the former Yugoslavia, is a borderland shared between the East and the West, categories developed by US political scientist Samuel Huntington, the philosopher wrote.
Croatia, with its Catholic majority, was encouraged to break its union with the predominantly Orthodox Serbia, “with murderous, even genocidal consequences all around.”

“In attempting to turn Ukraine into a forward country for positioning NATO bases against Russia, the US is paving the way, wittingly or unwittingly, for potentially that same kind of fraternal genocide and ethnic cleansing,” Ahmad wrote.

Commenting on an $18 billion promised IMF loan to Ukraine, Ahmad said he has doubts that the West’s economic assistance will indeed help the crisis-hit country. Kiev will need $24 billion to cover its budget deficit, debt repayment, natural gas bills and pension payments this year alone, according to Moody’s rating agency.

Over the past two decades, the Russian subsidy for Ukraine’s oil and gas purchases has reached about $200 billion. The West is offering little driblets of money, he said, adding that “without Russian generosity, the Ukrainian economy will be in ruins.”

“IMF-imposed austerity on a ruined economy and NATO-propelled militarization for eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Russian power is just the kind of combustible combination that may well lead to a civil war, a regional war, and heaven knows what else – in a country where 70 per cent in a recent Gallup poll voted against joining NATO,” he wrote.

Ahmad said China and India have supported Moscow in its actions in Ukraine, adding that a strategic alliance between Russia, which has vast mineral deposits, and China, the world’s second largest economy, could become one of the positive results of Washington’s fiasco in Ukraine.

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I am SERB, proud. I only want to say that USA and NATO bombed us in a capitol, Belgrade, downtown, civilians, after 10 days we had lights then they bombed it for 4 days no electricity, USA dropped Tons of cassette bombs, dropping flyers of propaganda and a lot of tomahawks which we actually see a lot of times slowly moved to the targets through the center of city. We were bombed, all SERBIA Countriy, EUROPEAN 1000yrs old!!!! and the media blockade/spin all time and for more than 10 yrs later after 199 tells to the west world it is an action of help strictly to Kosovo (a legitimate part of Serbia) not the whole Serbia, they took Kosovo simply by bombing, never come down on the ground, they bombed some nights with more than 1000 jets and even more drones and major big bombing were done outside, from Adriatic from B2 bombardier sive we shot the invisible F 117A 4.th day of campaign, it is expensive, you know… since our Army were efficiency and strong, but Kosovo paramilitary troops fight with our Army and NATO and US gave them all support, in the center of Kosovo, Pristine is big monument THANK YOU CLINTON! But! We are friends with people from Kosovo, it was all politics after 80 days Kosovo and whole Serbia was completely ruined, thousands of civilians died, our major cities centers was blasted (very old and secession and modern buildings smashed and US and NATO killed a lot of kids (collateral mistake???). Even today there is about 10 TONS of deployed Uranium at Kosovo and South of Serbia, and our few major cities buildings (beautiful,ruined, stand alone protected, cleaned but destroyed, mostly cleaned by deployed uranium and cassette bombs, and US drops more than 1000 bombes of 1 tons first 10 days of bombing at our Army HQ.(All Belgrade shaking) The point is that Russia didn’t kill anybody, didn’t steal anything and even couldn’t with Veto helped Serbia. HISTORY (not spins) They make the Russia Tzar empire and Ukraine is Countries of gifts of land and regions since Dynasty of Romanov to SSSR but East Ukraine are real Russians people. So, after all Serbia is poor non EU countrie, trying to join EU, without Kosovo, with many died in that war (specially civilians and kids at residential mistaken bombed Targets and trains, roads…., without industry and with bad taste about NATO because we were one of the biggest fighters and defenders of Holocaust in WWII, we kick ass Germans, and first planes at 1999 were US and Germans! Now, who is crazy???. It is all spinning since US needs a place to settle between Italy and Crete and a place filled with mines, gold, energy and coil. You know, in 10 yrs Kosovo will kick out US like they use the seccesion of EX Yugoslavia to have support of USA and almost whole west! But KARMA is KARMA, History repeated…

Just to add a little: Germany took only nine days after reunification to lead the charge of “liberating” Croatia and starting the breakup of Yugoslavia. Serbia, shamefully treated by German forces when it fought heroically against the Nazis, has been continually vilified first by Germany, then the rest of “the West” while NATO expanded to engulf most of the former USSR and encircle Russia. There is NO excuse for the behaviour of the “international community” to push for more militarisation and a new cold war or worse.